Bayard Thayer
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Bayard Thayer | |
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| Born | April 3, 1862 Boston, MA |
| Died | November 29, 1916 (aged 54) Lancaster, MA |
| Spouse | Ruth (Simpkins) Thayer (1864-1941) |
| Parent | Nathaniel Thayer II & Corneli Patterson (Van Rensselaer) Thayer |
| Family | John Eliot Thayer(twin) |
Bayard Thayer (1862-1916) was a yachtsman and horticulturalist, and member of the Thayer Family of Lancaster, Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts on April 3, 1862, he was the grandson of Thayer, and also was the grandson of Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Thayer, Unitarian minister of the First Church of Christ in Lancaster and son of Nathaniel Thayer, a banker.[1] He was named after his maternal grandmother Harriet Elizabeth (Bayard) Van Rensselaer. His twin brother was John Eliot Thayer the ornithologist.
Boston townhouses
Bayard city homes were a part of the Thayer Family land. He lived at both 305 Commonwealth Ave, designed by Peabody & Stearns,[2] and later at 32 Hereford, designed by McKim, Mead, & White, with his wife Ruth Thayer.[3]
